The Foundation Manager is a key member of the AABB Foundation's team and connects regularly with blood and biotherapies industry executives, board members, financial contributors, and volunteers. This position supports efforts to establish long term partnerships, strengthen existing relationships, and initiate new contacts to grow and establish the Foundation as a key industry resource. This position reports to the Foundation Director, and is responsible for several key efforts, including the scientific recognition award programs, and the Association's memorial awards. The Foundation Manager will also assist in the development of fundraising and donor engagement strategies and manage gift processing, financial, charitable giving, and constituent reporting, data management, and offer overall administrative support for Foundation activities.
Key Responsibilities
Fundraising
Develop content for solicitation letters and related pieces to promote engagement of current and new donors.
Work with Supervisor to design and implement approaches to attract and cultivate supports from individual, corporate, and foundation sources.
Process donations and generate gift acknowledgment letters and invoices.
Manage data and reporting to support fundraising efforts, donation tracking, and program impact.
Conduct research to identify new potential individual, corporate, and foundation donors.
Programs
Oversee grant and award programs including coordination of the application, review, and selection process; serve as a point of contact for the review committee.
Monitor the collection of interim and final reports submitted by grant recipients.
Provide planning and logistics support for executing program-related events at AABB's Annual meeting or other formats.
Develop content for program announcements and related pieces to promote awareness of grant and award recipients and new initiatives.
Collaborate with Marketing and Communications to manage the communication plan for print, email, web, and social media.
Operations
Support planning and logistics for Foundation Board and Committee meetings.
Represent the Foundation at the AABB Annual Meeting and other events.
Serve as primary contact for the Foundation email inbox.
Oversee updates to the Foundation webpages.
Contribute to other projects as assigned.
Process and track payment of vendor invoices and work with Finance to ensure timely payment.
Manage vendor contracts, invoices, processes, and procedures.
Support supervisors in their staff liaison roles and act as staff liaison for committee(s) as requested.
Experience and Education
Experience - Minimum of 3 years professional and project management experience required. Association, non-profit, foundation, or for-profit charitable giving experience preferred. Experience using a donor management system, i.e., Bloomerang, Salesforce, etc., and working with a membership database is preferred.
Education - Bachelor's degree is preferred. Corporate relations, fundraising, communications, or non-profit management degree preferred.
Experience and Skills
Proficiency and experience with long-term, cyclical multi-project management is essential.
Knowledge of donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies and techniques.
Ability to maintain a high level of poise and professionalism in all circumstances while representing the Association and the Foundation.
Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and networking skills with large groups as well as with individuals. Strong time management and prioritization skills are necessary, as well as the ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment.
Demonstrated ability to schedule, coordinate, and implement activities with numerous details and multiple deadlines.
Ability to work with an excellent attention to detail and minimal supervision.
Proactive and skilled at finding and solving inefficiencies.
Strong written and verbal correspondence is necessary, along with the ability to compose and edit executive briefings.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-departmental team setting.
Proficient using MS Office Suite, Zoom, Teams, and / or similar communication technologies.
AABB is the international association of blood banks, including hospital and community blood centers, transfusion and transplantation services and individuals involved in activities related to transfusion and transplantation medicine.More than 2,000 institutions (community and hospital blood banks, hospital transfusion services and laboratories) and 11,000 individuals are members of the AABB, including physicians, scientists, administrators, medical technologists, blood donor recruiters and public relations personnel. Members are located in all 50 states and more than 80 foreign countries.
